The most pleasing aesthetic effect is the happy accident.
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
At least you can deal with the devil; God just pushes everyone around.
Celebrated mediocrity augurs obscure excellence.
You can talk people into art, but you can’t talk them out of it.
America is a deeply religious country, imbued not with Christianity but self-help.
The audience will always be out of step with the artist, for one is just arriving at what the other has long since put out of mind.
The Gods of Liberty, Equality, Justice, and The People have demanded more human sacrifice than all other divinities combined.
The contemporary businessman cares only for art, and the contemporary artist only for money.
Shared antipathies are the ties that bind.
Our feelings may not be sincere, but our feelings about our feelings always are.